is a Japanese

manga artist A is a comic artist who writes and/or illustrates manga. As of 2006, about 3,000 professional manga artists were working in Japan. Most manga artists study at an art college or manga school or take on an apprenticeship with another artist be ...

Life

Soryo was born in Beppu, Oita,

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. She is a graduate of the Oita prefectural Geijutsu Midorigaoka High School. She was born into the home of a master of the Kanze school of Noh. In her childhood she liked to draw pictures of horses and things but had no special interest in manga. While enrolled in fashion college, she happened across Shogakukan's Rookie of the Year Contest and applied to raise money for the Sōen fashion contest. There she received an honorable mention, and subsequently made her debut as a professional manga artist with "Hidamari no Hōmonsha" ("Sunspot Visito") published in the April 1982 edition of ''

Bessatsu Shōjo Comic , known as before 2000, is a monthly Japanese manga magazine published by Shogakukan. It was conceived as a or "special issue" of its sister magazine ''Shōjo Comic''. It is released on the 13th of each month. Serializations Current * '' ...

''. For a couple of yours, she worked as an assistant for manga artist Fuyumi Ogura. She made herself a name as a shōjo manga artist. In 1988, she was awarded the Shogakukan Manga Award for ''shōjo'' manga for '' Boyfriend''. In 2001, she switched to mainly publishing

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, working for the manga magazine ''Morning''. Her manga series '' Cesare'' centers around the infamous Borgia family of the Italian Renaissance and

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himself. Her works translated into English include '' Mars'' and ''

ES (Eternal Sabbath) is an eight-volume manga series by Fuyumi Soryo. ES (Eternal Sabbath) is a gene developed by a group of scientists who sought immortality. The presence of the gene grants the carrier up to 200 years of life immune from all viruses. Though ...

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* * Women manga artists Japanese female comics artists Manga artists from Ōita Prefecture 1959 births Living people Female comics writers 20th-century Japanese writers 21st-century Japanese writers 20th-century Japanese women writers 21st-century Japanese women writers {{manga-artist-stub